House Committee Probes HUD Brooklyn Housing Co-owned By Trump

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has opened an inquiry into the many potential conflicts of interest involved in President Trump’s financial interest in the huge Brooklyn apartment complex known as Starrett City.The complex, located in Brooklyn by the Belt Parkway, receives millions of dollars in subsidies from his administration and is facing an inspection by the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) in the coming weeks.
The committee last week sent a letter to Trump’s trust and HUD Secretary Ben Carson spelling out several obvious conflicts and demanding thousands of pages of …